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> I feel in some ways current LLMs are making technology more arcane. Which is why people who have the time are having a blast figuring out all the secret incantations

Yeah, there's an important gap between engaging visions of casting cool magic versus (boring) practical streamlining and abstracting-away.

To illustrate the difference, I'm going to recycle a rant I've often given about VR aficionados:

Today, I don't virtually fold a virtual paper to put it in a virtual envelope to virtually lick a virtual stamp with my virtual tongue before virtually walking down the virtual block to the virtual post office... I simply click "Send" in my email client!

Similarly, it's engaging to think of a future of AI-Pokemon trainers--"PikaGPT, I choose you! Assume we can win because of friendship!"--but I don't think things will actually succeed in that direction because most of the cool stuff is also cruft.